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Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: To the Venerable Mister Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1525 (Classic Reprint)
Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will To the Venerable Mister Erasmus of Rotterdam 1525 - Classic Reprint Author:Martin Luther I deem it expedient to put the reader in possession of the circumstances under which this work was written ; for which purpose it is necessary that I premise a rapid sketch of Luther's historv, in its connection with Protestantism. Martin Luther was born in the year 1483, at Isleben, in Saxony. His father, who had wrought in the mines of Mansfie... more »ld, became afterwards a proprietor in them; which enabled him to educate his son, not only with a pious father's cure, but with a rich father's liberality. After furnishing him with thr elements in some inferior schools, he sent him at an early age to the University of Erfurth ; where he made considerable proficiency in classical learning, eloquence and philosophy, and commenced Master of Arts at the age of twenty. His parents had destined him for the bar; but after devoting himself diligently to the study of the civil law for some time, he forsook it abruptly, and shut himself up in a convent at Erfurth. Here he became remarkable
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